COWANSHANNOCK TOWNSHIP, Pa. — State police have charged a western Pennsylvania bar owner and a 19-year-old bartender with illegally serving two minors earlier the same evening that three other minors were allegedly served shortly before they crashed a pickup into a pond and died.

Police say 20-year-old Sean Titus, 19-year-old Zane McMillen, and 18-year-old Cody Douglas, all of Kittanning, drank at the Final Score Saloon in Rural Valley shortly before the pickup Titus was driving crashed just after midnight May 5.

The 58-year-old bar owner, Larry Pompelia, was previously charged with doctoring surveillance footage and sales records in order to avoid blame for the crash. Now police say he sat and watched while bartender Kristin Fisher, of Cowanshannock, served two other unnamed minors on May 4, hours before the crash victims were also allegedly served.

Indiana County District Attorney Patrick Dougherty said Pompelia deleted footage that showed Titus, McMillen and Douglas drinking alcohol inside the bar in Cowanshannock Township and destroyed receipts that would have proved the men were there.

According to the criminal complaint, Pompelia tried to blame another bar where he claimed the men consumed enough alcohol to become drunk before the crash. Pompelia, of Rural Valley, is charged with tampering with or fabricating evidence and unsworn falsification to authorities, police said.

Police have not said how much alcohol they believe Titus, McMillen and Brink-Douglas drank, or how intoxicated the driver was at the time of the crash.

Police said all three men went to a location on private property in South Mahoning Township to meet friends at about 10 p.m. and remained there for a short time before leaving.

They returned later in the pickup and were heading up a dirt access road to the property but continued going straight toward an incline that contained the pond, and the vehicle crested the incline and plunged into the water, police said.

Once in the water, the vehicle "for unknown reasons" rolled onto its roof, trapping the men in the cab, police said. Several friends rushed there to try to help but were unable to rescue the victims.

"The efforts were extraordinary that they tried to utilize. We believe they tried to utilize tools such as a crow bar to try and break the windows, to try and pry the doors open," said Trooper John Matchik.